Urbanization and child nutritional outcomes

Amare, Mulubrhan · Arndt, Channing · Abay, Kibrom A. · Benson, Todd

2017年11月 · NSSP Working Paper 第 49 冊 · Intl Food Policy Res Inst

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In this paper, we investigate the implications of urbanization on child nutritional outcomes using satellite-based nighttime light intensity data as a proxy for urbanization and urban growth. We employ two rounds (2008 and 2013) of geo-referenced and nationally representative Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) data from Nigeria. The DHS data provide detailed anthropometric measures of child nutritional outcomes along with a series of control variables. We merge these geo-referenced DHS data with nighttime light intensity data for the survey clusters in which the DHS sample households reside. This nighttime light introduces a continuous gradient of urbanization permitting investigation of the implications of urbanization on child nutritional outcomes along an urbanization continuum. The longitudinal nature of the nighttime data allows us to examine the dynamics of urbanization and its implication on child nutrition.

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Mulubrhan Amare is an Associate Research Fellow with IFPRI’s Nigeria Strategy Support Program, based in Washington, DC, USA. Channing Arndt and Todd Benson both are Senior Research Fellows in IFPRI’s Development Strategy and Governance Division based in Washington, DC. Kibrom A. Abay is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark.